Home intruder dies in shooting

Published 12:19 pm, Friday, February 22, 2013

The son of a homeowner on Thursday night shot and killed one of three suspected intruders at a home in west Harris County, officials said.

The shooting happened about 9 p.m. at the house on Brook Garden near Cloudbrook, said Deputy Thomas Gilliland of the Harris county Sheriff's Office.

Gilliland said the homeowner heard a knock at the front door and when he opened it the suspects rushed inside. One of the suspects carried a pistol and another had a shotgun.

The owner yelled for his adult son to get a gun and the younger man rushed down a hall to a bedroom. One of the suspects followed him. Gilliland said the son grabbed a gun and fired three shots, hitting the man. The wounded man died at the scene.

Gilliland said the other suspects had been attempting to bind the homeowner's hand with duct tape. But when they heard the gunfire they left the house, speeding away in a white Ford Explorer.

Deputies spotted them a short later and took them into custody.

Gilliland said investigators were trying to determine what led to the home invasion.